Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign. c.org/26qjPmffNy

American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.

mystic bridge (with train window filter)

The unhinged right-wing opinion to 'evidence-based' journalism pipeline described here could just as easily apply to the BBC – on which Justin Webb stated, as 'heard' fact this week, that 'all' UK university staff & students are 'looking for a victim group of some kind to which they can belong'

can anyone who has had library fellowships or similar in the US recommend a tax accountant who can help with claiming back the $$$ that are taken pre-payment? i have tried the self-service route and have hit several brick walls (social security numbers, mailed-in documents, etc etc)

If you happen to be in beautiful Edinburgh on 10 Dec, perhaps come to the Edinburgh Futures Institute to hear me talk about developing archival imaginary digital interactives! Maybe I will even explain what that means! Hopefully by then I'll know! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-users-...

That the UK has so far pledged only £7.5 million in aid to Jamaica is shameful - it is a drop in the ocean of what is needed, & of what Britain can afford, particularly given the wealth that the UK has extracted from Jamaica over the centuries. Justice means reparations, not drip-fed handouts.

Seconding this endorsement. It's @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social, so no surprise that it's good, but the range and depth here are just what we need. As a map to the landscape of current global politics and ideas 7 decades on from Bandung, this is essential. Coexistence & the Commons!

Honestly, all I can think about right now is #JAMAICA. Hold her in your heart RIGHT NOW! #hurrianemelissa

Join us for the launch of Henry Dee’s ‘Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951’. Published with @livunipress.bsky.social. Marx Memorial Library, 29 November sslh.org.uk/2025/10/27/b...

I shouldn’t be surprised, but it‘s pretty appalling to hear Today on BBC Radio 4 cover Hurricane Melissa exclusively through multiple interviews with British holidaymakers in resorts –completely ignoring actual Jamaicans & the millions of people in the UK worried about family and friends in Jamaica.

“No Category 4 or 5 hurricane has made a direct landfall on Jamaica in recorded history. No one living there has ever experienced anything like what is about to happen.”

today's typo which could also be a work by Leonora Carrington: 'ear of a queer planet'

Brilliant snapshot of Claude McKay and the transnational radicalism of #20s30s British world. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Marcus Garvey in Scotland in 1914: 'I have seen wonders, I have learnt wonders and I hope to teach wonders... At some places I have been the only black man seen for a good time... I have had access to places that only the aristocracy would think of going... some take me for an African millionaire'

'Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.' (Oscar Wilde, 'The Soul of Man Under Socialism', 1891 - full text here: www.marxists.org/reference/ar...)

'I find earth as beautiful as heaven, and the body as beautiful as the soul. If I do live again I would like it to be as a flower — no soul but perfectly beautiful. Perhaps for my sins I shall be made a red geranium!!' Oscar Wilde dissing the (suburban? bourgeois?) red geranium in 1885.

Nancy Cunard in 1938, spelling out the links between 'articifically constructed race "superiority" & "inferiority"; the Nazi "Aryan" farce acted out in blood, Mussolini's brutal "pacifications," Anti-Semitic campaigns, & the setting of Arab against Jews throughout North Africa, Syria and Palestine.'

Very sad to hear about the death of John Lucas. Among all of his other achievments, I have always been grateful to him for his 2005 edition of Nancy Cunard's poetry with Trent Editions– I think it was the first republication of her poems & laid the groundwork for a lot of subsequent interest in her.

This is huge (though I can’t help but think that the years of my PhD I spent downloading the library of Alexandria in PDF form in anticipation of being cut off really shaped me as a researcher).

hand-drawn angels from the cover of one of Sylvia Townsend Warner's scrap-books and on the plaster above a cell door in a fourteenth-century Umbrian convent

Some images from Wael Shawky’s amazing opera Drama: 1882 - first shown at last year’s Biennale and now on as part of an exhibition of his work at the Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh. It ends tomorrow - I highly recommend catching it if you can!

Stephen Mullen, a highly regarded historian specialising in Scotland's links with Atlantic slavery, objects to a right wing scholar's flagrant misrepresentation of his own work and that of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum's curators in @thetimes.com alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

Can literature’s ‘what if’ questions help us reset our relationship with money? Dive into speculative fiction and the emerging field of the Economic Humanities in the new episode of Beyond the Books ft. Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature. Full ep: youtu.be/hWlrWuaz5IQ

@ucuedinburgh.bsky.social FIRST DAY OF WELCOME WEEK STRIKE ACTION ‼️#StopTheCuts

Today is the first of 5 strike days by @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social #DefendEveryJob www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/welcome-week...

Busy @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social picket lines this morning at Edinburgh University with staff striking to defend jobs and oppose the biggest cuts seen in Scottish higher education #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies #StopTheCuts

More pictures of our determined picket lines! Keep them coming! #UCU #StopTheCuts

Striking today to stop jobs cuts at the University of Edinburgh. It is a manufactured crisis. There is no deficit. #stopmassredundancies

Edinburgh Staff are determined to #StopTheCuts! #SaveHE #NoCompulsoryRedundancies

Central Italy says Free Palestine

My book is available for preorder @melvillehouse.bsky.social! It’s about The Hite Report—the 50M-copy feminist sexology bestseller—its wild, visionary author Shere Hite and culture wars then and now. Out April '26! mhpbooks.com/books/the-bo...

Very exciting book news from Rosa Campbell, one-time editorial fellow at History Workshop 📖 👀

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

This is very good - on Germany’s foul denial of genocide in Gaza, but also on how German education on the Holocaust has shuffled guilt onto Muslims, and erased its own genocides of people other than Jews:

'Dreaming of A Woollen World' by Maya Hall de Bueno: cat follows mouse into woollen paradise/underworld and is rewarded with a fellow being. There is something about this Leonora Carrington-inspired short film that I really love - a kind of feminist fantasy Andy Goldsworthy, on a domestic scale?

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Dr Peter Cherry has three questions for you: 1️⃣ Does your research engage with #gender? 2️⃣ Are you a final-year PhD student at a university in Türkiye? 3️⃣ Did you finish your PhD within the last five years at a university in Türkiye? ➖ Appply at biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...

Apply for my @britishacademy.bsky.social funded International Writing Workshop Researching, Writing and Publishing on Gender, Culture & Society: Upskilling ECRs in Türkiye! Funding available for ECRs outside of Ankara. Deadline for applications: 13 September

That’s all for the first season of Heritage Türkiye…But there will be a second season - so stay tuned!

"Without labor nothing prospers": Sophocles, miners, worker co-operatives, no tips, and Samuel Gompers - labour history and organising in Athens, Ohio.

Further to this @thetls.bsky.social essay about Una Marson's early work as a publisher, the full run of Marson's 1920s/1930s magazine, The Cosmopolitan, is now freely available on the Digital Library of the Caribbean (@dlocaribbean.bsky.social): www.dloc.com/AA00114844/0...

NUJ protest in Edinburgh tomorrow in response to the targeted killing by Israel of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal - 6 pm, outside Waverley Station.

Belatedly sharing this important (and in fact now urgent) petition calling for a safe route to UK study for students from Gaza: bsky.app/profile/nasa...

Faces of Charleston (a Virginia Woolf Society conference latergram)

My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!

A wonderful piece, that brings us back to apparently old-fashioned ideas like actively working for peace, freedom of conscience – and the primacy of human life, and human rights, over the sanctity of property, and property rights.

For Bastille day, 'Revolution is not simply a word', by Cuban poet Alberto Rocasolano: 'Revolution is [...] the only way of trampling/ cactus memories/ until the future thrusts up a pattern,/ one day squeezed into another.'